All the Laws but One recounts the history of civil liberty in times of war, concentrating primarily on the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. Prof. Muller argues that the account of limited civil liberties that appears in the book oversimplifies the story. Illustrating this, the essay analyzes two examples in which civil liberties were protected during times of conflict: President Lincoln's decision to override General Grant's order expelling Jews from the Department of the Tennessee and Judge Louis Goodman's exoneration of Japanese-American draft resisters during World War II.